#article

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#article #asked #automobile #editor #i

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. ↗

— James Smithson

#laws #learned #other #particle #planet

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#himself #infinity #now #now and then #particle

‎"-that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#home

In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning a quest that will lead to transformation and redemption. A journey through the dark of the woods is a motif common to fairy tales: young heroes set off through the perilous forest in order to reach their destiny, or they find themselves abandoned there, cast off and left for dead. The road is long and treacherous, prowled by wolves, ghosts, and wizards — but helpers also appear along the way, good fairies and animal guides, often cloaked in unlikely disguises. The hero's task is to tell friend from foe, and to keep walking steadily onward. ↗

— Terri Windling

#inspirational #myth #online-article #online-essay #path

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#been #cover #discussed #elaborate #far

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#articles #chief #pharmacy #water

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#article #aunt #boy #brooklyn #choose

Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul- they're all gone. I don't know who the hell I am anymore. If it weren't for you... I don't know. ↗

— Kristen Simmons

#family